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Baby Line to support new mothers at upcoming hospital visit in Durban

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National counselling and support service Baby Line will conduct its next KwaZulu-Natal hospital outreach visit on 24 March 2026 – bringing care, counselling support and encouragement to new mothers at Durban’s Victoria Mxenge Hospital. Baby Line is an online and telephone counselling and support service for vulnerable mothers in crisis. In addition to the counselling

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The greatest gift: Twins reunited after months-long fight for survival

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Being together over the festive season had special significance for the Ndlovu family after one of their identical twin babies returned home, thriving after spending months fighting for his life in a paediatric intensive care unit in another province. “Our twin boys, Kwandokuhle and Kwenzokuhle, were born in April 2025 – and at the end

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Mental health and the NICU mom: The silent battle behind the glass

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If you’ve ever walked through a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), you’ll know the atmosphere: quiet, sterile, filled with tiny machines keeping even tinier lives stable. What you may not see, though, is the emotional toll it takes on the mothers standing behind that glass. For many moms of premature babies, the NICU isn’t just

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Baby Archie’s story continues to touch lives

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What began as one family’s healing journey through grief has quietly grown into a powerful legacy of love, connection and early developmental support for vulnerable newborns and their parents across South Africa.   Since launching just under two years ago, Archie’s Archives has brought comfort to thousands of families through seven of Netcare’s neonatal intensive

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Why less is more when it comes to understanding newborn skin

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Newborn skin: soft, squishy, and oh-so-kissable. But behind that perfect glow is something many new parents don’t know — a baby’s skin barrier is still a work in progress, and it needs a very different kind of care from ours. “People assume baby skin is just miniature adult skin — but that couldn’t be further

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Maternal anaemia: 2 out of 3 South African expectant mothers at risk

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Anaemia is a global health challenge impacting many pregnant women and their newborns. According to the World Health Organization, anaemia affects around 40% of pregnant women globally, with even higher rates in developing regions such as South Africa, where two out of three expectant mothers have low iron levels and one in three is anaemic.

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Managing holiday visitors: Keeping baby safe around family and friends

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With the holiday season comes the excitement of family gatherings, visits from friends and festive cheer. However, if you have a new baby at home, holiday gatherings can also introduce concerns about your baby’s safety and well-being. “This time of year often brings visitors into the home, each with different levels of familiarity with infant

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Keep your child’s health data – including newborn screening results – safe from birth

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In a game-changing development for healthcare, parents can start building a lifelong medical record for their children from birth, thanks to a partnership between personal digital health vault Ajuda and the National Metabolomics Platform (NMP), hosted at the Centre for Human Metabolomics at North-West University. The partnership will see a baby’s newborn screening results uploaded

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